Politics & Government

A requirement that U.S. and Canadian citizens have a passport by January 1, 2008, for entering the U.S. at land border crossings has now been delayed until June 1, 2009.

On November 14, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) reversed an earlier board ruling and granted a request by Downeast LNG to withdraw its application that was before the board for the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Robbinston.

The campaigns for and against the Passamaquoddy Tribe's proposed racino in Calais are finally heating up two weeks before the statewide election.

Downeast LNG has notified the Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the company's application for a pipeline right-of-way through part of the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge...

Canada's recently appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Bernier assured members of Save Passamaquoddy Bay/Canada (SPB/C) that the Canadian government remains strongly opposed to the establishment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in Passamaquoddy Bay.

The New Brunswick government's acceptance of a proposal from a group of companies in the nuclear and power plant field to conduct a feasibility study for a second nuclear reactor at Point Lepreau, located 28 miles from Eastport, is being denounced by nuclear energy critics who believe that...